Chelsea 2-0 Arsenal: Hazard and Costa seal another Blues win

Chelsea moved five points clear at the top of the Premier League table with a 2-0 win at home to Arsenal on Sunday.

An Eden Hazard penalty put the Blues ahead, before Diego Costa continued his outstanding goal-scoring form to put the game to bed with 12 minutes to play.

The match was full of incident, with a minor altercation between Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho on the touch-line prompting much debate from watching fans. But on the pitch, the game changed when Hazard was fouled by Laurent Koscielny and the Belgian international dusted himself off to dispatch the spot-kick.

Arsenal had a valid penalty appeal turned down when their former player Cesc Fabregas blocked a shot with his arm in the area. And the Spaniard would have a bigger part to play when his outstanding long pass was controlled brilliantly by Costa before he scored what proved to be the last goal of the game.

Vincent Ralph

After graduating with a degree in English Literature, Vincent completed a NCTJ-accredited qualification in newspaper and magazine journalism in 2005. Shortly after, in a somewhat leftfield move, he began working at a secondary school in Kent. After eight years – the last four of which were spent as Head of Sixth Form – he began to write full-time, combining his love of football with his passion for the written word.Alongside his work for HITC Sport, he also writes film reviews for HITC Lifestyle… along with the odd music interview when fate allows.